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Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians

For Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington.

Azoreans to California: A History of Migration and Settlement

Article by Robert L. Santos.

Basques in California

California As I Saw It First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

Library of Congress American Memory online exhibit.

California Cornish Cousins

California Japantowns

Digital information about the towns where Japanese Americans lived. Through this website, we hope to engage new audiences and educate visitors about the historic legacies of Japantowns, or Nihonmachis, across the state. We introduce you to the vibrant communities of the three remaining Japantowns in California and the results of Preserving California

California Pioneer Project

California State Archives - California State Government Oral History Program

California State Library - Research Guides - California Native Americans

A guide to the California Native American history and genealogy resources at the California State Library, California History Section.

Chinese in California, 1850-1925

A topical approach to the material presented in the Chinese in California digital archive.

Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project

Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America

Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Railroad

From the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum.

Filipinos Gone 2 California

Filipinos who immigrated to California.

GEDCOM Index - California

Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.

Japantown Atlas

The Japantown Atlas maps nearly two dozen communities in California where Japanese Americans lived and worked prior to World War II. Drawing from historic maps, business directories, and photos, we show a variety of Japantowns as they existed in 1940. Our project both memorializes the Issei (first generation Japanese immigrants) in their first 20-50 years in America - the businesses, churches and schools they established - and documents the hometowns that 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were forced to leave behind during their incarceration in "Assembly Centers" and "Internment Camps" during World War II (1942-1946).

Los Californianos

For descendants of a Hispanic person who arrived in Alta California prior to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848.

Names of Early Portuguese Immigrants to California

Native Daughters of the Golden West California Pioneer Project Master Surname Index

Online index to over 33,000 California Pioneers who resided or were born in California before December 31, 1869.

Online County and Town Histories - California

This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

Our Family Tree - California Genealogy

Collection of family trees and resources for the state of California: Sill, Conrad, Johnson, Waldo, Burks, Walton, Jensen, Smallwood, Seibel, Page